Improvement in shoe-lacing hooks



eela sere anni: rdeities.

y ALPHONSO PATTEN, 0F BIDDEFORD, MAINE, ASSIGNOR T0 HIMSELF AND ROBERTW. RUM'ERY, SAME` PLAGE.

Letters Patent No..109,933, dated December 6, 1870.

The Schedule referred to in these'Leti-:ers Patent and making parl: ofthe same.

To all persons to whom til-esc presents 'ma-y come:

Be litknown that I, ALPHONSO PATTEN, of Biddeford, in the county of Yorkand State ot' Maine, have invented a new and useful Shoe-Laeing HookedStud; and do hereby declare the saine to be fulfy described in thefollowing specilication and represented in the accompanying drawingmaking partthe'reof', and'of which- 4 Figure l isa front elevation;

Figure 2, a side view; and v Figure 3, a transverse sentieri, on'anenlarged scale, ofthe said fastening. 'l

In carrying out myV invention I form the head Aas a prismatic orcylindrical hook, having tw'o dents, act,

'atits base, and also with a screw-hole, 11,made upward in the head-fror its base, such screw-hole being to receive a headed male-screw, B,which, after having been passed through a'hol'e in the upper of a shoe,is te be screwedv into the head A, so as to draw it closely down uponthe leather. the dents'or spursa serving to so`x` the headv as topreventit from being `revolved on. the leather by the strain of' thelacing.

l :un aware of the' laeing-stucls described inthe United States Patent'42,517 and 77,421, which, a1-

though in some respects are analogous to my inven- 1tion, yet differmaterially from it, one veryimportant point of difference being thatneither of such studs of such patents has any dents arranged upon it inman ner and for the-purpose in which are those of' my im

